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John Carpenter

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Irving-Based MADD Is Now Also Against Promoter Who Didn't Deliver NASCAR, Money

    ​Google the phrase "SponsorMonsters," and the first thing that pops up is an item from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website touting the John Carpenter Freeway-based organization's partnership with it. As in: "For 2011, Sponsor Monsters donated their lead sponsorship position to MADD and will ... More >>

  • Music

    January 12, 2012

    Hacked & Slashed

    Friday, January 13, at Zubar

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Adding Carpenter Plaza Park to Cause a Redo of the City's Downtown Parks Master Plan

    From the Downtown Parks Master PlanJust seven years ago, Carpenter Plaza Park was supposed to be part of a larger gateway to the Arts District.​We've known for a long while now that the upcoming expansion of expansion of César Chávez Boulevard and Pearl Expressway downtown, from Commerce Street ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Gennarino's is Ready to Roll like a Friggitoria

    Gennarino's The crew behind the frist Dallas friggitoria.​Gennarino's announced last night they are officially hitting the streets. Gimme a big FINE-A-FRICKIN'-LEE! They've been teasing us about their Neapolitan-style friggitoria for over a month. Now, Raffealel, Armando and Alessio are ready to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Dallas PD Needs Help ID'ing Men Who Emptied a Brook Mays, Then Pawned Instruments

    Above is a video just posted by the Dallas Police Department in which two men smash-n-grab the Brook Mays on John Carpenter, stealing as many instruments as they can get their mitts on in the wee small hours of June 7. But it's a two-parter: A few hours later they're seen again at an Oak Cliff pawn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Two-Time Oscar-Winner Once Made Nutty Short Film About Dallas Sanitation Worker

    A shot from the 1974 short film Big D​I was looking for something completely, entirely, absolutely unrelated on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image's website this afternoon when I came across this recent addition to its back catalog: a short film called Big D, which comes from the Dallas Municip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Here's the Skinny on the Travails
    Of Blind Dating

    ​I don't work in Dallas and driving there for lunch, a blind date lunch no less, was a hard sell. So, when my friend who set me up on my first blind lunch date said it was five minutes from my office, I said "deal." (I recently went on two different blind dates. Why? I don't know. Maybe becaus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    The Revival of the Revival House: Texas Theatre to Start Showing Movies Again Next Week

    Courtesy Oak Cliff Foundation​Last I heard, the folks behind the Texas Theatre's extreme makeover still needed some $7 million to get the historic Oak Cliff movie palace completely put back together again. (Some $2 mil has been raised and spent since redo efforts began in '01, but those Cliffdwell ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2010

    State Scare Of Texas

    Courtesy Oak Cliff Foundation​Last I heard, the folks behind the Texas Theatre's extreme makeover still needed some $7 million to get the historic Oak Cliff movie palace completely put back together again. (Some $2 mil has been raised and spent since redo efforts began in '01, but those Cliffdwell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    That's One Scary Effing Line-Up They've Put Together for Frightmare Film Fest

    ​Good God. We're slowly but surely working our way through the Dallas International Film Festival offerings -- though, from the sound of the press release that just landed in the in-box, we'd best hustle. Why come? Only a couple of weeks after that fest wraps is the Texas Frightmare Film Festival, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Naked Man on John Carpenter Freeway Billboard Stops Traffic. Ya Think?

    If Elaine knew she was going to see a naked guy on a billboard today, she would have brought a better camera.​Our own Elaine Liner had a whole different flavor of Theater Jones moments ago on southbound John Carpenter Freeway near the Regal Row exit -- right across the street from The Fan's HQ, ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    When It Comes to the Trinity River Project, History Keeps Repeating Itself, Repeating Itself

    John W. Carpenter Papers, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library,Ben Carpenter, son of John, is the one seen here pointing to a Trinity River canal master plan​Your Trinity River correspondent and advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, which would be me, had two interesting e ... More >>

  • Film

    October 29, 2009

    Turn Your Pad into a Haunted House With These Small-Screen Scares

    John W. Carpenter Papers, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library,Ben Carpenter, son of John, is the one seen here pointing to a Trinity River canal master plan​Your Trinity River correspondent and advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, which would be me, had two interesting e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    For Sale, a Photo of the Man Who Took Some of the Most Iconic Early Pictures of Dallas

    ​Friend of Unfair Park PeterK, who knows of my affection for old Dallas photos, sends word of this rare gem for sale on eBay: a portrait -- or, perhaps, a self-portrait -- of Charles Erwin Arnold. If you're unfamiliar with the name (or the nickname, "Painter of the Lens"), perhaps you've seen some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Short Orders: Cadillac Ranch

    ​Cadillac Ranch857 John Carpenter FwyIrving972-506-7262Cadillac Ranch was a roller coaster ride when I reviewed the place sometime in...well, less than a year ago. My short term memory cuts in an out, even though I take plenty of herb-infused medicine for the problem.Tastes medicinal, anyway.I sto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Senators Take Scalpel to Local Medical Equipment Providers' Cost of Doing Business

    ​Six years ago, Cynthia Fitzgerald filed in Dallas federal court a complaint that The New York Times predicted in 2007 "could become one of the largest whistle-blower lawsuits on record." The suit stemmed from Fitzgerald's tenure at Novation -- a company HQ'd on John Carpenter Freeway that sells m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Gig Alert: Guthrie Kennard Tonight at Cadillac Ranch

    Unbeknownst to me, semi-local singer/songwriter Guthrie Kennard has set up a sort of residency at the Los Colinas nightspot Cadillac Ranch. If I'd been paying better attention, I would have already hustled my ass up John Carpenter Freeway and caught Kennard's fine examples of Americana much earlier ... More >>

  • Film

    February 5, 2009

    Coraline: Things are not as they seem in Henry Selick's stunning stop-motion fairy tale

    Unbeknownst to me, semi-local singer/songwriter Guthrie Kennard has set up a sort of residency at the Los Colinas nightspot Cadillac Ranch. If I'd been paying better attention, I would have already hustled my ass up John Carpenter Freeway and caught Kennard's fine examples of Americana much earlier ... More >>

  • Film

    June 12, 2008

    What's Happening?

    Unbeknownst to me, semi-local singer/songwriter Guthrie Kennard has set up a sort of residency at the Los Colinas nightspot Cadillac Ranch. If I'd been paying better attention, I would have already hustled my ass up John Carpenter Freeway and caught Kennard's fine examples of Americana much earlier ... More >>

  • Music

    November 1, 2007

    Booka Shade |Henrik Schwartz |Ricardo Villalobos

    DJ Kicks (!K7)|Live (!K7)|Fabric 36 (Fabric)

  • Film

    April 5, 2007

    Glittering Hunks of Trash

    Rodriguez and Tarantino overcome nostalgia in their cut-and-run grindhouse mash note

  • News

    January 4, 2007

    The Team-Wrecker | Racist by Any Name| Dallas Ex-pat

    Rodriguez and Tarantino overcome nostalgia in their cut-and-run grindhouse mash note

  • Film

    January 20, 2005

    Unlucky 13

    This Assault attacks the original and does no damage

  • Year End Music

    December 30, 2004

    Up From the Underworld

    This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

  • Music

    October 14, 2004

    Queensryche

    Friday, October 15

  • Film

    August 19, 2004

    Don't Inhale

    The Mexican caper Nicotina is all smoke and no fire

  • Music

    May 27, 2004

    Club Directory

    The Mexican caper Nicotina is all smoke and no fire

  • Music

    April 10, 2003

    Club Directory

    The Mexican caper Nicotina is all smoke and no fire

  • Film

    October 24, 2002

    I See Nothing

    Schrader turns the lens on Bob Crane...and?

  • Culture

    October 10, 2002

    Out of Focus?

    Scotty Crane is tired of getting the shaft from Paul Schrader

  • Film

    August 23, 2001

    Cowboys and Martians

    John Carpenter stages a spooky showdown on the red planet

  • Film

    November 16, 2000

    Well Dunne

    The Deep Ellum Film Festival returns, suffering from the Terrific Twos

  • Film

    October 26, 2000

    Witch Is Which?

    Blair Witch 2 blurs fact and fiction, but the truth is, it ain't scary

  • Calendar

    October 12, 2000

    Hearts of Darkness

    The horrors of reality

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    His honor

    Former Dallas Mayor Wallace Savage brought a conscience to unprincipled politics

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    Horsefeathers

    What do you get when you cross a horse with a white elephant? The Las Colinas Equestrian Center.

  • Film

    May 27, 1999

    Going down

    Thirteenth Floor proves virtual reality bites

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    Short takes

    Thirteenth Floor proves virtual reality bites

  • Film

    October 29, 1998

    Stake tartare

    John Carpenter sinks his fangs into the screen's vampire tradition

  • Calendar

    May 28, 1998

    Night & Day

    May 28 - June 3, 1998

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Flood money

    The Trinity River Plan's billion-dollar vision of levees, parks, and ponds has Mayor Ron Kirk--and most of Dallas--spellbound. But engineers warn it could lead to a flooding catastrophe and destroy the same poor neighborhoods it's designed to help.

  • Film

    April 24, 1997

    I love LAva

    Volcano destroys Los Angeles with hot magma and cool affection

  • Film

    December 19, 1996

    Murder by schtick

    Wes Craven's Scream is bloody hilarious

  • Film

    August 15, 1996

    Escape while you can

    Is Escape from L.A. campy comedy or awful action? You decide.

  • Film

    May 4, 1995

    Bad seeds

    John Carpenter's promising Village of the Damned never flowers

  • Film

    March 9, 1995

    Hellbound

    The hyped-up supernatural thriller Hideaway is too sloppy to be scary

  • Film

    March 2, 1995

    Kicking the corpse

    Why the new wave of horror films can't scare us

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